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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






2. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






3. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






4. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






5. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






6. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






7. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






8. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






9. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






10. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






11. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






12. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






13. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






14. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






15. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






16. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






17. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






18. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






19. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






20. A short saying with a moral.






21. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






22. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






23. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






24. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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25. A poem that tells a story.






26. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






27. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






28. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






29. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






30. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






31. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






32. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






33. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






34. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






35. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






36. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






39. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






40. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






41. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






42. A character struggles against some outside force.






43. The person who 'tells' the story.






44. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






45. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






46. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






47. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






48. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






49. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.